Terence:This is a sure sign that red-hot Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi is preparing for a big year in 2014 with an expansion outside China. It is slated to enter Southeast Asia too.

Phoebe: Xiaomi is so hot. And this flash sale in Taiwan proves so.With the buzz going around about Xiaomi in the region, I’m predicting its soon-to-be success once it starts to expand. Well, I want to own a Xiaomi phone, too

Minh: It’s amazing that Xiaomi is able to pull so many of these strong sales numbers in China. What I am looking forward to in the next few years is when Xiaomi starts to look at the US and Europeans markets for sales. This would be a big step for the company and a clear threat to consumer electronics dominance from South Korean and American giants.

I don’t want to be a downer here, but while it’s nice to see Google add more languages into its translation tool, I’d also like to see the company invest more into R&D to improve the platform. Frankly, the translation system right now is not really accurate. But I don’t want to complain much as it’s free.

Apple’s App Store is not only a ‘walled garden’ of curated content, it’s also – in terms of the Chinese iOS App Store – a China-based business that has to abide by local laws. And that means censorship.